Today, points are shared on church attendance and the divine inheritance given a child through their own parents. The sacred operations to prepare those who will be taken up from the earth as the harvest of Christ are intended for all the living, and are not shared by the people of GOD on the basis of age, ethnic background, formal education, national origin, or economic status. Even so, family and other intimate relationships make it that ones beliefs and good standing as a member within the body of Christ also should be acknowledged as a peculiar treasure and wealth to be shared and passed on as ones private estate and legacy. The Scripture includes instruction on twin brothers, Esau and Jacob; one correctly valued the divine inheritance from his father Isaac, the other did not. A fighter at “Yahoo! Answers (Canada)” using the ID “Anonymous” (no profile information appears) posted the following:
My parents force me to go to church?
I don't wanna ******* go.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (2nd Peter 1: 2-11, King James Version, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Divine Inheritance and Resurrection? (07/06/2016); An Eternal Inheritance? (06/26/2016); Going To The Cross? (05/25/2016); Heirs of The Cross? (04/01/2016); Skipping Church A Sin? (11/17/2015); Forced To Attend Church? (02/22/2015); Blessing and Inheritance from Abraham? (06/05/2014); On Christians Executing Judgment (06/06/2014)
“Anonymous”, don’t ask to be disinherited. There are many who want to deny and dishonor GOD, and GOD has no interest in them. In accordance with public laws in our society, assemblies, communities of faith, and church congregations are private institutions (i.e., for members only). You have been allowed to enter in among Christian believers as an aspect of the inheritance purchased for your parents at the cross, and received through their continuing acknowledgments of resurrection and imparted Spirit. Your parents are sharing with you something they regard as having deep meaning for their own lives, and are willing to share only with their own sons and daughters, not with any strangers. Correctly understood, for Christian believers, church attendance is required, and is a “duty” (a necessary assignment or job that must be performed correctly, without complaints or hesitation, and with willingness to endure every cost, loss, or suffering that may be demanded). Because you are still “a child” in your ability and practice of sacraments, sacred knowledge, and unselfish ministry to others your parents are carrying you forward, even though in many ways they themselves are imperfect, and unable to see all the many invisible things of GOD that are present in all our lives. It remains that, as a dependent child, you are required to live under circumstances and preconditions that others have put in place—from your name and eye color, to your home address, and where you may put your feet under the table. Lacking insight, love, maturity and respect, no one really expects to see their children express gratitude for their efforts as parents to include them in eternal life by sharing godly benefits with them now. Even so, they do expect obedience, and that without disrespect and grumbling. Consider how some of this is stated using language from the holy writings:
(1.) Genesis 18: 17-19, King James Version (KJV): 17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
(2.) Deuteronomy 6: 4-9, KJV: 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
(3.) Psalms 119: 9-12, KJV: 9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. 12 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
There is far more to be said, carefully examined, and spiritually understood. (For example, (4.) Deuteronomy 21: 18-21, KJV: 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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